Weird weather, and probably weirder still over the next few days, gloomily out the door yet again rather early to record All the BBC Sound Files
XXV. Planes
XXVI. China
XXVII. Babies
in the Lab, expediting Eduardo and Jason's set-up in 101. Errands around town (back to the big box, discovering one can go in and out of and make all purchases from the side entrance) and home, finishing Psalm 55 (and the process of transferring the analogous King David movement from Sibelius into Encore), producing the second-movement pdf of Nocturnes for Insomniacs (Op. 10), and bringing over Violin Concerto ("Ticklish") (Op. 87) from PC to Mac (having already previously transcribed The Gospel According to St. Matthew and Magnificat in the latter).
Also take in most of Richard Wagner's Die Walkure on the Met broadcast: James Levine, Placido Domingo, Bryn Terfel, Deborah Voigt -- definite sense of deja vu, but after all these years...
While finishing up the Nocturnes work, an error message appears that the 500 GB Passport external hard-drive has been disconnected (it hasn't), and while such a message has appeared occasionally (as far back as last November, soon after it was purchased), this time, when re-connecting the unit, a clicking noise is heard. Google the issue, and it could very well be "the click of death," signifying the imminent demise of the unit. Hustle off to Staples, where perception is confirmed, and am directed over the freeway, past charming student musicians making their bid to save school music (amen!), to Best Buy, where a 1 TB unit is purchased.
Returning home, the larger Passport is not recognized by the computer (but suddenly, neither is the 320 GB unit that was acknowledged before disconnecion). The horns of a dilemma: turning off-and-on the computer will probably jog it back into reading the external hard drives, but will the ailing one give up the ghost entirely? Yes and no... the new unit boots up and the old one doesn't die, yet. All files are transferred over, but it takes 5 hours, such that it is impossible to attend Owen Lee's Diablo Valley College Philharmonic Concert, wherein Bill Wolter's new piece is played, as well as New Big People Old Trouble So Sunday -- alas -- but Owen happily checks in via email (regrets from this end had been expressed at 7:30pm via voicemail) to assure that the pieces went well and were warmly received.
A seventh clip for Camino Real: Block 9 video quite late....
